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This is more of an indictment of the video game industry and what a joke it has all become lately. This year’s E3 honestly isn’t interesting me all that much. I mean, what are the big new things coming up? A sequel to the shit-tastic Destiny that I couldn’t possibly care less about but everyone seems to think is just so amazing. Nintendo has their latest Mario clone that is just the same as the others but this time with an open world. Neat, I guess? Kojima’s latest project isn’t going to show, but that doesn’t surprise me. He’s already said that hoping for a release date in 2018 is not happening so don’t bother. From Software has already told people not to start hoping for a Bloodborne sequel, but are saying they have something new that people who love that will just love! I bet. Everything is a sequel or a remake. I’m just not that interesting.

Sure, The Last of Us: Part 2 may make an appearance. That would be cool. Especially if there is gameplay footage. I am also hoping for a release date for Detroit: Become Human to make an appearance too, but part of me figures that will be asking too much. Then people are saying “but what about the remake for Final Fantasy VII?!” Did everyone just forget that that game will be released episodically? And Square Enix is charging a full-priced game amount for each episode? Yeah, fuck that noise. I’m not giving them a cent. I am not paying $180 for AAA game. Not happening. I can get a gaming console for cheaper. I am just not feeling the magic.

Trailers like this certainly don’t help.

Really? I mean, really?! You’re rebooting Bubsy? Who the fuck asked for this?! Really, what person anywhere actually asked for this to be a thing?! With all the franchises that could use being brought into the 21st century. Like Spyro, or Shantae, or a ton of the old Disney platformers (the remake of the Duck Tales game was awesome!), or any of the games on this list (shameless pandering!), Bubsy is the one we get?! Let’s analyze this.

We have this annoying cat thing speaking, in a voice that makes me want to tear my ears out. Not off to a good start, game. It talks about how the world has all these problems. Sure, I am down that that. One of them is the fact that a game studio I am shocked didn’t die with you brought you back to life. No joke, I genuinely am amazed that the company who brought us Bubsy 3D didn’t go tits-up when the game died on the funeral pyre that was its existence. But then it decides to tell us that we can ignore all that shit and instead focus on Bubsy! Oh boy! We then get to see some generic platforming. Oh boy. That sure does look like every other generic platformer that I have ever seen without a single thing that catches my interest.

The reality is that this game looks mediocre. With all the great 2D characters who could be brought back to life like Gex or Shantae or Earthworm Jim or even Spyro, this is the loser that this company actually wanted to unearth from the gaming graveyard? I will never understand. If gaming is becoming another version of Hollywood, I fear for its future. For real, I do.